Sunday, October 12, 2008

Bill's Thorn Comfort Bars

I had the pleasure of meeting up with Bill S [a Bike Forums member] on Friday and check out his lovely Thorn Nomad S&S. It's an impressive bike - very functional and much nicer looking than it appears on the Thorn website. I wish I had an opportunity to test ride it a bit more thoroughly, but that wasn't in the cards. My camera battery was dead so I wasn't able to snap any photos which is a shame.

This sort of encounter is why I love the internet. You get interested in an obscure product from the UK and a few search engines later you are looking at it, test riding it and chatting with someone who lives in your city and owns one.

Bill brought along a set of Thorn comfort bars he wasn't using for me to look at. I was interested in buying them and seeing how I found the shape/hand positions. To my surprise Bill very kindly gave them to me. Thanks Bill!...=-) I'm going to try them out on my winter MTB. They offer quite a bit of rise and more rearward sweep than typical MTB riser bars.

3 comments:

My experience is that Thorn's prose can be flowery at best and downright exaggeration at worst. They do make really nice stuff though ( I am about to hop on my Thorn right now and ride to town).

Vik, I would be interested to know how you go with a Rohloff shifter and ergon grip on that right side. I have been considering trying the Thorn bars but their website mentions there not being room for the Rohloff shifter, a grip and bar ends which has really put me off as I would want the bar ends. They seem bloody wide too. Thats 50mm wider than the trekking bars I have on the Thorn right now.

Was that foot yours? What did you do to yourself? Been in the wars this summer(winter here) eh?